Concertadamente Quotes & Sayings

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side — Jenny Saville

Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both traditional Universalism and the narrow, exclusivist understanding of hell [that unless you explicitly accept and follow Jesus, you are excluded from eternal life with God and destined for hell]. — Brian D. McLaren

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone. — Charles Lamb

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way. — Stone Gossard

But in our age of emptiness, tragedies are relatively rare. Or if they are written, the tragic aspect is the very fact that human life is so empty, as in Eugene O'Neill's drama, The Iceman Cometh. This play is set in a saloon, and its dramatis personae - alcoholics, prostitutes, and, as the chief character, a man who in the course of the play goes psychotic - can dimly recall the periods in their lives when they did believe in something. It is this echo of human dignity in a great void of emptiness that gives this drama the power to elicit the emotions of pity and terror of classical tragedy. — Rollo May

This book is the account of his redemptive journey - through innocence, bigotry, hard-line radicalism, and beyond - to a passionate advocacy of human rights and all that this can mean. — Maajid Nawaz

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds!
Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! — Samuel Johnson

I can connect
Nothing with nothing — T. S. Eliot

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. — Yann Martel

And for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the young or rich or poor or dark or pale or he or she. Nothing for their struggles, nothing for their names. Nothing for the living or the dead. — Cormac McCarthy

I didn't want to see anything worse than me befall her. — Larry Brown

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it. — Chogyam Trungpa

Authenticity is the exact opposite of what you find in some churches. — Rick Warren

New Year's Eve always terrifies me. — Charles Bukowski